Chapter Twelve: Adventures and Misadventures of a Military Reformer: Ramón de Cáceres and the Difficulties in Establishing Bureaucratic Procedures in the Armies of Río de la Plata, 1810–1830 Alejandro M. Rabinovich

Chapter Thirteen: Taxation without Bureaucracy? Republican Governments and the Old Fiscal Regime in the Estado Oriental del Uruguay: An Approach through Tax Farming, 1828–1852 Mario Etchechury-Barrera

Chapter Fourteen: The Justice System, the National Guard and Control of Public Order: the Brazilian Empire in the Initial Decades of the Nineteenth Century Wilma Peres Costa and Andréa Slemian